August 3rd, 2018

Somewhere in Nicaragua

Of course, its always good to stretch before you go out for any surf session.

Kevin always stretches while he’s surfing. Haha

You see what I did there… ? Kevin, flaring on his stretch surfboard.

When in doubt, always paddle out. Always helps to see this as you’re making your way to the lineup, too.

As surfers, we constantly get beat downs from the very waves we love to surf. This guys’ making a stand and giving this wave his own beat down right back. Take that Mr. Wave!

It might be possible that this is Kai DeLorenzo’s favorite wave.

Probably his little bothers as well. He’s been frothing and ripping at this spot for a couple weeks now. You know he’s getting this place pretty dialed, too. Taking that infamous PC high line.

Back over to Kai, the big bro who learned about the “high-line” approach to surfing this wave quite some time ago. Maybe when he was around the same age as his little bro.

Looks like we could have another Andy and Bruce in the making….… they’re even both opposite stance rippers too. Let’s only hope.

If you were fortunate enough to start surfing at a really young age, like this micro grom,

I think it’s fair to say that you were actually catching and riding waves well over head most days of your early inception of surfing.

and then you up grow to a be a much more powerful surfer and you get to do things like this.

I guess if you’re gonna get burned on a wave, it’s always good to have a nice view…. OF COSTA RICA IN THE BACKGROUND, THAT IS!

Lenny putting his many many many Manzanillo days to test here at the real barrel machine. Looks like he was practicing a lot at his beloved left.

My new amiga and ripper, Andrea de El Salvador.

Shine’s been absolutely on fire every time I’ve seen him out since he’s come back down. Its actually really cool to see him above the lip..

because 99.9% of the other times, he’s usually deep behind the curtain in every barrel.

I could have shown any of the 7 or 8 frames of him after the last shot, but it would just look like any beautiful empty surfer-less wave (ya, he get’s really deep). However, this is him after doggy door’ing the same wave. You can imagine what I’m talking about.

Always good to see Big D back down in Nica-town.

Not sure who this dude is, but he was showing some nice surfing out there amongst the talent today.

Another unknown visitor here, enjoying one of Nicaragua’s best resources.

Yesterday, Scoops and Spokes (a local artisan ice cream shop) had homemade cookie ice-cream sandwiches. My guess is this guy had one and now he’s trying to replicate his delicious ice-cream sandwich here.

Uncle Rick, putting some of his North Shore surfing experience to practice here at our Pipeline.

I’m not sure if this guy has even been to the North Shore, but this looks like a mini-version of backdoor (minus the deadly reef of course).

Maycol, today told me his dream and goal is to get the biggest barrel of his life here at PC. Looks like he’s working hard on his dreams here every day.

By the looks of his board art, it also looks like he likes HUGS too!!

Hows your top turn game out there>>>?? This guys looks pretty solid!!

Alright…. who’s ready for the weekend out there? I know I am. Hope you have a fantastic Friday and I’ll see you all back here again tomorrow. Nos vemos pronto ~